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Fig. 5 | CABI Agriculture and Bioscience

Fig. 5

From: Safeguarding and using global banana diversity: a holistic approach

Fig. 5

Workflow for banana phenotyping at Bioversity International. By simulating different climates in a sophisticated controlled lab environment (the bananatainer) at the same location as the ITC collection, the ITC collection is efficiently being screened for potential varieties that have good growth performance for the different East African agro-eco zones. The bananatainer can grow 504 plants simultaneously for 6 weeks up to 70 cm height. The promising genotypes are then validated in a second phase in the greenhouse. In a third phase a selected set of genotypes is tested in strategic agro-eco zones for agronomical performance and consumer acceptance

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